"88 Instruments": At roughly the beginning of 2020, my mom died & left me some money.  Mainly from around that time up 'til August, 2020, I bought instruments, most of them used, from thrift stores, Craigslist, etc, sometimes broken - in other words, even though I had some money I didn't have enough to feel free to buy a new Ophicleide, e.g..  From roughly October, 2020, to October, 2021, I, & some other people, built an addition onto my house - mainly so I could make room for these new instruments & for friends to play with me.  

My intention was to play all the instruments, to make samples from them, & to, as it ultimately turned out, make 88 samples for my new sampling keyboard.  This movie started out as a somewhat simple document of my finally playing these new samples - in a sense the culmination of 16 months of work.  

But, then, I decided that, while it was aurally interesting, it would be visually boring if I stayed 'purist'.  Since the sound already wasn't purist (because there are unexplained sound effects samples used as well as the 88 instruments ones), I decided to add to the visuals from footage from the same 16 month period - most of it footage that I hadn't used elsewhere yet or that I hadn't used in this way.  

While working on editing this, I watched Walerian Borowczyk's "Théatre de Monsieur & Madame Kabal" (1967) - a wonderful film that's mostly animation that's very nonsensical, playful, & free-form (although that doesn't do it justice).  Imagining that playing in a movie theater pleases me enormously because it caters so little to narrative conventions.  This inspired me to do 'irrelevant' things with my footage just for the fuck of it that I wouldn't have done ordinarily.  

The result?  Well you can see & hear it for yourself.  Somehow I manage to still have fun - even during the social isolation of the MIPS (Medical Industry Police State). 

- December 31, 2021 notes from tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE

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